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Manuscript letter card mentioning Taormina and various entertainments planned before moving the camp to a different site. Concerts with local musicians, tea parties, a bean feast and dinner parties with dances, orchestra and cabaret.

Manuscript letter card mentioning a parachute which has been sent to his wife and a bean feast with his battery including a concert party with a jazz band.

Manuscript letter card mentioning the moving of the camp site to a place with electricity and Bianca Scafidi and her story.

Manuscript letter card from Sicily.

Manuscript letter card mentioning Collins, the publication of his poems, the preparation of another poem, life in the army and learning Italian in Sicily.

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Manuscript air letter from Sicily about Jarmain's children and wife, including a draft of the poem ''Faith'.

Manuscript letter card from Sicily about war propaganda. Also including references to the Italian shops and his daughter.

Manuscript letter card mentioning spending some days of leave at Sparta with Bianca and her family, Messina, Stromboli and some of his poems, 'Tobruk' and 'Alamein'.

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Copy of letter from France mentioning the effect of war on the French landscape. The letter was written the night before John Jarmain was killed at Saint Honorine la Chardonne.

Black and white photograph showing, left to right, Bunny, Rose Marie Duncan, and Margery outside Mead Farm. Labelled on reverse in two hands 'Mead Farm July 1948' and 'Margery Harman 0081'.

Students from the University College of the South West celebrating Rag week outside the Bradninch Place college building, Gandy Street, Exeter

Black and white photograph showing Briony, Rose Marie, and Ronald Duncan eating ice cream cones with Benjamin Britten in a street in Clovelly.

Black and white photograph showing Briony Duncan with Benjamin Britten, sitting overlooking a waterfall. [Waterfall referred to by Briony in 2017 as 'Speaksvilles']

Black and white photograph showing Rose Marie Duncan in front of a gate with an unknown child.

Black and white photograph showing Ronald Duncan with an unknown man overlooking a beach. Labelled on reverse, 'The Ishmaelites!'

Black and white photograph showing Rose Marie Duncan with Patricia Poke by a coastal wall.

Black and white photograph labelled 'Annaliese' on reverse.

Sepia-toned photograph showing Rose Marie watching as Roger and Briony sit with an Alsatian outside Mead Farm

Sepia-toned photograph showing Rose Marie Duncan with an Alsatian outside Mead Farm

Black and white photograph showing Ronald Duncan writing whilst sitting outdoors.